喜樂美語

核心畫面

One way to hold this word: a hard shell added to the outside of something soft. Knock on it and it sounds flat and heavy. The shell does one job — it keeps what is outside from getting in. Once you have that picture, the word can move outward from the thing wearing the shell to the people who work inside it.

「armoured」可以想成在一個原本脆弱的東西外面，多加了一層硬殼。敲下去聲音又悶又重。那層殼只做一件事：把外面的…更多收起「armoured」可以想成在一個原本脆弱的東西外面，多加了一層硬殼。敲下去聲音又悶又重。那層殼只做一件事：把外面的傷害擋在外面。抓住這個畫面之後，這個字就可以從「穿著殼的東西」往外走一步，變成「在殼裡面做事的那群人」。

One branch

外面那層鐵

兩個意思其實是同一幅畫面的兩個距離。近看是那層鐵皮本身；退一步看，是一群靠這層鐵皮工作的人。

adjective · B2

Covered with a strong outside layer of metal, so that bullets or other attacks cannot get through. It is used most often about vehicles, but also about doors, windows, cables, or a person wearing armour.

裝甲的、包了防護層的

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

armouredadj

  • 1

    Possessing, wearing, or fitted out with armour.

    • The armoured vehicles rolled into the city.
    • There was a moment before the speech when cameras captured Mr Trump in his armoured limousine, rehearsing his lines. Practice, it seems, made good, if not perfect.
  • 2

    governmentmilitarypoliticsEquipped with armoured vehicles.

    • an armoured unit; the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。